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Pivot Grid — An Overview of Latest Enhancements

In this post, I’ll summarize Pivot Grid-related enhancements we’ve introduced over our last few release cycles (specifically, API changes designed to simplify product use for those targeting WinForms, WPF, and web platforms)....

Margarita (DevExpress)

31 August 2022

BI Dashboard — Create Dashboards in Visual Studio Desktop .NET Apps (v22.1)

You can now create, design, and display dashboards in a single .NET WPF or WinForms Dashboard Viewer application for .NET 5+ with ease....

Dmitry Tokmachev (DevExpress)

21 June 2022

WinForms Dashboard - Custom item Extensions

In our most recent release (v21.1), we published a public API that allows you to embed any WinForms control into the DevExpress Dashboard. The primary advantage of this API and our Custom Dashboard Items, is the ability to leverage the functionality available for built-in dashboard items. Based on previous survey results, we recently created a set of highly requested custom DevExpress Dashboard items....

Margarita (DevExpress)

15 September 2021

WinForms Charting – Data Binding Optimization and New Data Adapters (v21.1)

As you may know, the 2GB memory pool limits the maximum number of points that can be processed by our WinForms Chart Control. Over the last few months, we discovered a way to increase the maximum number of points in bound mode by approx. 35%-45% (when compared to our previous version – v20.2) without changing input data source schema....

The DevExpress Team

23 April 2021

WinForms Dashboard - Custom Items

Hope you’re doing well. As you may know, a couple of years ago we introduced custom item support for DevExpress Web Dashboards (v17.1). Many of you have asked us to add this capability to our WinForms Dashboard . The good news is that in our next major...

Margarita (DevExpress)

18 April 2021

WinForms and WPF Map Control - Vector Tile Support (v20.2)

As you may already know, both our WinForms and WPF Map Controls support vector tiles. Briefly, our Map Control for WinForms and WPF now supports a set of vector tile providers and a predefined set of vector styles. We would like to thank everyone who shared their feedback about vector tile support over the last 6 months. Our development team worked hard to enhance this capability in our v20.2 release cycle. Among the most popular user requests was the visualization of vector tile labels....

Kseniya Kuzmina (DevExpress)

22 October 2020

WinForms and WPF Maps - Map Rulers, Rotation (v20.2)

In this post, I’ll describe a couple of features we expect to release in our v20.2 release cycle – features that are currently available in the DevExpress Map Control (WinForms and WPF) Early Access Preview (EAP) build....

Kseniya Kuzmina (DevExpress)

1 September 2020

Sankey Diagram Control — A New Data Visualization for Desktop (WinForms, WPF)

We’ve got some good news for those looking to visualize data in new and unique ways. Our upcoming release will include a new Sankey Diagram Control (for WinForms and WPF). Sankey Diagrams display paths between nodes and associated quantities. The thickness of each path varies based on the value of a corresponding node. When used, end-users can easily see major paths and spot inefficiencies or losses within a given flow....

The DevExpress Team

25 August 2020

Charts (WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET, MVC, .NET Core) – API enhancements (v20.1)

Calculated Fields Our .NET Chart Control (across all supported platforms including WinForms , WPF , ASP.NET , MVC and .NET Core) now supports a new data processing option that allows end-users to define new data fields using Criteria Language Syntax ...

The DevExpress Team

5 May 2020

WinForms and WPF Maps – Vector Tile Providers (v20.1)

The DevExpress Map Control (WinForms & WPF) ships with built in support for Bing Maps and OpenStreetMap. In both instances, maps are built from a set of tile images at multiple zoom levels. When an end user zooms or pans the current map view port area, a new set of raster tiles are downloaded from the server....

The DevExpress Team

1 May 2020